Support for whole-body donation among educational staff in Southwestern Ugandan medical educational schools

IF 2 3区医学 Q2 ANATOMY & MORPHOLOGY

Annals of Anatomy-Anatomischer Anzeiger Pub Date : 2024-08-29 DOI:10.1016/j.aanat.2024.152327

Ndyamuhakyi Elisa , Ibe Michael Usman , Victor Adolf Fischer

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Abstract

Background

The teaching of anatomy from early days of medical education relied on the use of cadaver; hence, the present study assessed the support for whole-body donation among academic staff.

Methods

This is a cross-sectional study conducted from January to March 2024 in Southwestern Ugandan medical educational schools among 160 academic staff. Ethical approval was obtained and structured questionnaires were distributed to study participants in the selected Medical Educational Schools.

Results

Among the 160 sampled academic staff, only 16 % and 18 % supported the donation of their whole-body and the bodies of their relatives/friends for anatomical education respectively. The reason put forward for respondents support for whole-body donation were contribution to medical science (88.5 %) and learnt from someone’s body (53.8 %). The fear of misuse of their body (42.5 %), cultural (53.7 %) and religious (44.8 %) belief were the reasons for non-support for whole-body donation among the study participants.

Conclusion

This study concluded that support for whole-body donation among academic staff was low; reasons for non-support were fear of misuse of body, religious and cultural beliefs; hence, we recommend the need for massive desensitization of the public aimed at building confidence on whole-body donation in the community.

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乌干达西南部医学教育机构的教职员工对全身捐献的支持。

背景从早期的医学教育开始，解剖学教学就依赖于尸体的使用；因此，本研究评估了学术人员对全身捐献遗体的支持情况：这是一项横断面研究，于 2024 年 1 月至 3 月在乌干达西南部的医学教育学校进行，共有 160 名教职员工参与。研究获得了伦理批准，并向所选医学教育学校的研究参与者发放了结构化问卷：结果：在抽样调查的 160 名教职员工中，分别只有 16% 和 18% 的人支持将自己和亲属/朋友的遗体捐献给解剖学教育。受访者支持捐献遗体的理由是对医学科学的贡献（88.5%）和从某人的遗体中学到知识（53.8%）。担心自己的遗体被滥用（42.5%）、文化信仰（53.7%）和宗教信仰（44.8%）是受访者不支持捐献遗体的原因：这项研究的结论是，学术人员对全身捐献的支持率很低；不支持的原因是担心身体被滥用、宗教和文化信仰；因此，我们建议有必要对公众进行大规模的脱敏教育，以在社会上建立对全身捐献的信心。

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Annals of Anatomy-Anatomischer Anzeiger 医学-解剖学与形态学

CiteScore

4.40

自引率

22.70%

发文量

137

审稿时长

33 days

期刊介绍： Annals of Anatomy publish peer reviewed original articles as well as brief review articles. The journal is open to original papers covering a link between anatomy and areas such as •molecular biology, •cell biology •reproductive biology •immunobiology •developmental biology, neurobiology •embryology as well as •neuroanatomy •neuroimmunology •clinical anatomy •comparative anatomy •modern imaging techniques •evolution, and especially also •aging